Sixteen weeks after it debuted at No.1, Sabrina Carpenter’s breakthrough album Short n’ Sweet returns to pole position on consumption of 15,220 units (2,564 CDs, 3,661 vinyl albums, 10 cassettes, 62 digital downloads and 8,923 sales-equivalent streams). That is its highest tally for seven weeks but the lowest on record for a No.1 artist album at Christmas, breaking the previous record of 16,460 set by The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds in 2023. 

In the top three throughout its chart ...